Advice to a Son Precepts of Lord Burghley Sir Walter Raleigh and Francis Osborne by Louis B. Wright

Author:Louis B. Wright [Wright, Louis B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 2940023753720
Goodreads: 11065097
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2011-04-02T00:00:00+00:00

To the reader concerning the following discourse of love and marriage

THIS had not appeared, being a result of more juvenile years, but that I feared, if let alone, it might hereafter creep abroad from under a false impression and one more scandalous to that sex than becomes my complexion or obligation. Therefore, to vindicate me from the no less inhuman than unnatural imputation of a woman-hater, I do here protest with a reference to their charity and my own most serious affections that if the party advised had been a daughter, my ink must have cast blacker than the rich grain of their angelical beauty is capable to be aspersed by, it being observable that such idolaters as made she-deities the object of their worship were by all celebrated for most learning, wisdom, and civility. Nevertheless, though women be cordials when desire is past and juleps while the heat continues, yet since it is ordinary for dabblers on beauty to mistake poison for physic—such feminine boxes not always bearing drugs suitable to their inscriptions but being often painted with more perfections than they carry in them—I hope this discourse may the better be excused, having the example of Solomon to justify the harshness of my expressions no less than his follies to warrant the necessity of the caution, lest my son should mire himself and his hopes in the pursuit of such foolish flames as have tempted the strongest, wisest, and most religious out of the ways of peace. I shall forestall the reader with no farther complement than that he would forbear to condemn or praise beyond reason, lest he should appear too severe towards my levity or indulgent to his own morosity in relation to beauty.

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